{"id":2079,"date":"2011-03-19T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2011-03-19T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:35:50","slug":"2079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/03\/19\/2079\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air .. almost, at least.. It&#8217;s prime sugaring time.. nights are still cold.. in the teens or twenties.. but it&#8217;s starching to crack freezing by midday.. yesterday morning it was actually in the 40&#8217;s. when we got to Bromont..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0030.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spotted this license plate as we were waiting to ross the border back in to the US. Probably not the right place to snap a picture.. but I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0034.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woke today to a breezy and relatively warm day.. 30 degrees, windy, sunny with clouds . You could hear birds singing.. not a sound we&#8217;ve heard for many months<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0035.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0037.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the yard is about 1\/4 free of snow.. but it&#8217;s still piled up high in places..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0036.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another sign of spring is the start of Lacrosse season.. That means a bottle drive. Gabe, Will and I spent a couple of hours knocking on doors collecting returnable bottles to help fund the team.. it was\u00a0 like Halloween .. only with bottles. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0045.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0048.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0050.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had to turn around in one neighborhood.. the roads were really bad. It&#8217;s definitely mud season.. Diane and I went\u00a0 running on Dugway rd. a little later in the afternoon and you could just feel how deep the mud is.. there&#8217;s just no bottom. The school buses actually were rerouted yesterday to avoid places where the roads were bad.. Al l the kids on Stage road and notch road had to walk home.. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All of these were signs of Spring.. but nothing said Spring to me like the\u00a0 sign of Diane&#8217;s Daffodil&#8217;s\u00a0 deciding to make an early showing..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I loved seeing them pocking up around the snow.. Soon it will be warm and green..\u00a0\u00a0 it&#8217;s been a nice long winter.. I&#8217;m ready..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0056.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/mar1911\/img_0059.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK.. that&#8217;s it for now ,,, More tomorrow !<\/p>\n<p>note all.. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps. Check out the moon tonight..it&#8217;s a &#8216;supermoon&#8217; !\u00a0 it&#8217;s closer than it&#8217;s been in 18 years !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is in the air .. almost, at least.. It&#8217;s prime sugaring time.. nights are still cold.. in the teens or twenties.. but it&#8217;s starching to crack freezing by midday.. yesterday morning it was actually in the 40&#8217;s. when we got to Bromont.. 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